Audio Archives from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/27/07

Producer/host: Jim Campbell

We move in a world of bits and bytes every day and take that for granted. But just what is a bit and what is a byte and what do they mean to our electronic lives? As part of our “No Listener Left Behind” initiative, today we take a step back to examine these omnipresent bits and bytes so that we all know what the terms mean and how they work in our increasingly electronic world.

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Outside the Box 9/25/07

Producer/host: Larry Dansinger

Topic: Rewards

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A Word in Edgewise 9/24/07

Producer/host: R.W. Estela

Every week RW connects the local with the global. If you’ve got an idea you’d like entertained, let us know at [email protected] (put “Word in Edgewise” in the subject line), and we’ll try to work it into next Monday’s essay.

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RadioActive 9/20/07

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Guest: Dennis Chinoy with an update on efforts, via the “Citizens Not Terrorists” campaign, to prevent the Salvadoran government from continuing to press “terrorism” charges against peaceful community organizers .

FMI: www.elsalvadorsolidarity.org

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/20/07

Producer/host: Jim Campbell

Think censorship is a thing of the past? Alas, it is alive and well around the world and right here in the U.S. in both the physical and electronic realms. Check out Banned Books Week at the American Library Association web site and the state of Internet censorship worldwide at opennet.net.

Eye-opening experiences both.

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Indigenous Voices 9/18/07

Producers/hosts: Rhonda Frey and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topic: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Knopf, 2005) by Charles Mann. An interview with the author and Penobscot Elder Arnie Neptune

How did the regions throughout the indigenous world differ demographically, ecologically, and in origin? How do the scientific world and spiritual beliefs compliment each other in indigenous history? Comparison of what has been taught in schools and perpetuated in media, versus the true history of indigenous civilizations- development, agriculture, relationship with the environment,